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In this conversation, Kurt and Kristen Luidhardt talk with Dusty Holcomb, founder of Arcus Group, leadership advisor, former CEO, and host of the Leadership Unlock podcast. Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, Dusty shares how AI is reshaping business, leadership, and the future of competitive advantage.

Dusty argues that AI itself is not the biggest challenge—leadership is. As new tools become more accessible, organizations must learn how to use them strategically rather than simply chase the latest trends.

He introduces the idea of extracting "signal from noise," helping leaders focus on meaningful opportunities instead of endless distractions.

The conversation explores why AI will not replace great leaders but instead amplify their strengths—or expose their weaknesses. As excellence becomes easier to achieve, Dusty believes the real differentiators will be uniquely human qualities such as judgment, trust, relationships, and the ability to connect seemingly unrelated ideas.

Beyond AI, Dusty reflects on his leadership journey, lessons from servant leadership, the decision to leave the CEO role and launch Arcus Group, and how faith has shaped his approach to calling and decision-making.

If you're trying to understand how AI will impact your organization, your leadership, or your future opportunities, this conversation offers practical insights and a thoughtful reminder that the most valuable advantage may still be the human one.

Key Takeaways

00:00 AI, Leadership & Signal From Noise

00:47 Meet Dusty Holcomb

04:22 The AI Questions Every CEO Is Asking

08:02 Leading AI Like a Team Member

15:53 Will AI Replace Experts?

19:24 New Opportunities Created by AI

20:31 AI Will Amplify or Expose Leaders

23:09 Finding Competitive Advantages

30:19 When Excellence Becomes the Baseline

31:42 The Human Advantage

37:56 Dusty's Leadership Journey

40:10 Leaving the CEO Role

41:26 Hearing God's Direction

45:58 Clarity, Alignment & Execution

49:38 Defining a Life Well Lived

52:50 Helping Leaders Navigate Change

Resources

Arcqus Group

https://arcqusgroup.com/

Leadership Unlocked Podcast

https://arcqusgroup.com/podcast/

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustyholcomb/

Rules of Engagement Leadership Framework

https://myrulesofengagement.com/

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Jodi Jackson Tucker, Lisa C. Qualls, and Betsy Kylstra share their stories as an adoptive mother, adopted child, and birth parent to equip those affected by adoption to experience healing from the wounds caused by broken families. Hear about God’s redemptive and transformative work through adoption.

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We put so much weight on the big doors. The launch, the numbers, the speaking invitation. Meanwhile God keeps opening small ones and we walk right past them.

Shelley shares two stories from inside Christian Book Academy. Megan mentioned her book at her dentist's office, and the assistant there turned out to know teachers and librarians. Pam handed a book to a neighbor, and one single page in it carried that neighbor through a hard time.

She and CJ call these divine appointments. She prays over you at the end that you would start noticing the small ones.

In this episode of the New Books Network, Željko Stanojević speaks with Matthew Montgomery about his article “An Intercessor Like Moses: A Key Component of the Psalter’s Message”, published in the European Hebrew Journal.

Montgomery’s study asks how the final form of the Masoretic Psalter communicates hope after the collapse of Judah and the Babylonian exile. Building on the widely recognized observation that Book III of the Psalter engages the downfall of the Southern Kingdom while Book IV places unusual emphasis on Moses, he traces textual signals connecting these sections with Exodus 32–34. Particular attention is given to the introduction of Moses and Aaron, the clustering of references to them in Books IV and V, and repeated allusions to Moses’ intercession after Israel’s covenant-breaking at Sinai.

The central argument is that these features are not isolated reminiscences. Read together, they help shape the Psalter’s theological and literary message. Moses appears as the paradigmatic representative who can stand between God and a disobedient people, plead on their behalf, and turn away divine anger. Montgomery argues that, in the post-exilic horizon of the Psalter, this Mosaic pattern contributes to an emerging hope for an intercessory figure capable of mediating between God and a covenant-breaking community. The interview explores what this proposal contributes to final-form readings of the Psalter and why the arrangement of psalms can itself become a vehicle of meaning.

Matthew Montgomery is a scholar of the Hebrew Bible whose research includes Psalms, scriptural reuse, rhetoric, literary coherence, and the shaping of biblical collections. His article was published on 18 June 2026 after double-blind peer review, with Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Eckart Otto serving as Academic Editor. The article is freely available through its permanent DOI.

Montgomery will also speak at the EHJ International Scholarly Online Conference 2026, “New Discoveries and New Directions in Biblical, Hebrew, and Theological Studies”. On 8 November 2026 at 22:00 CET, he will present “Neither Story or Arbitrary: The Rhetoric of Juxtaposition in the MT Psalter”. The presentation develops a related concern with how the Psalter’s ordering creates rhetorical and theological effects without requiring readers to treat the collection either as one continuous story or as an arbitrary anthology.

The host, Željko Stanojević, is a Hebrew linguist, biblical philologist, lexicographer, translator, and scholar of Biblical and Modern Hebrew. He is President of the Institute for Hebrew Language and Literature in Belgrade, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the

Jodi Jackson Tucker, Lisa C. Qualls, and Betsy Kylstra share their stories as an adoptive mother, adopted child, and birth parent to equip those affected by adoption to experience healing from the wounds caused by broken families. Hear about God’s redemptive and transformative work through adoption.

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